Why Is Visualisation Important? Options

Is it possible to manipulate some energy flows through visualisation only?

If so, what's the direct effect of visualisation?

Does it somehow land onto the subconscious which makes out of the images a rouhly matter thing?

Or does it somehow land into the astral? or is there something else?

sorry for my silly questions

Vagrant Dreamer (sorry my post will be directed towards you, the PM function didn't seem to work for me): I'm very interested in more information and practice in energy manipulation. Since visualization can only take you so far, what other resources would you suggest for more guidance on this topic?

It takes a certain number of posts to utilize the PM function is probably what you are encountering. We get this a lot. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

As far as more information goes, I've written class lessons that cover a large extent of the introduction to this particular topic. However, what you are looking for as a subject is basically pathworking. Did you have a particular question?

As an aside, it is worth noting that there are different kinds of magic for different purposes. Evocation, invocation, energy work, sympathetic magic - these all have their particular applications which are good for accomplishing different ends. It's good to use the right tool for the right job.

Energy work is effective for direction and control over one's own energy - in terms of what we attract and repel, what currents we invite to operate in our lives, etc., in a way a form of invocation to a particular 'current'. It's effective in a lot of meta-magic, that is directing other magical currents constructed through ritual and enhancing the effectiveness of ritual magic of any kind, once experienced in locating and directing specific energies. Its useful for constructing thoughtforms/servitors. Healing magic (more so the individual at first, others usually later on), protection magic, luck magic possibly more effectively than almost any other.

It is not, for instance, as effective at sympathetic magic for 'cursing' or other destructive magic for some reason (can be effective, just not as, at least in my limited experience there - to be fair, I haven't hexed anyone since I was a wee magician and filled with teenage angst!). It isn't as useful for manipulating people in drastic ways in general, although subtle applications have their uses if some tactical approach is used. Evocation is better for retaining the service of entities, gaining information, etc.

In all cases the key to using energy work effectively is accomplishing as much as possible with as little work as possible, focusing the majority of one's effort on the smallest possible detail of any given situation or goal which will ultimately bring about the change one desires.

The greatest gift of learning energy work, in my opinion, is that over time one simply becomes accustomed to seeing the world and acting in it on an energetic basis rather than a material basis, which lends a degree of honesty to the world around the practitioner. A gesture or phrase may look/sound the same materially from different people, but energetically they can be very different and warrant a different response. The flow of time, of information, etc., is energetic in nature and the more in touch we become with the subtle reality the more our unconscious mind begins to pay attention to that subtle current - as a consequence our natural intution becomes sharper and the number of 'coincidental' occurences begins to drastically rise. It's as though we become aware of some higher current of intention in the world and by that awareness have an unconscious understanding of how to act and when, usually without even realizing that we're doing it. It becomes important to begin trusting our instincts when the occur, and not over thinking decisions or spur-of-the-moment actions.

peace

This post has been edited by Vagrant Dreamer: Jun 12 2009, 04:43 AM